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Democracy and Monarchy

October 20, 2015

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Democracy and Monarchy

Regarding the country as their own private property, the monarchist-aristocratic class will wish to preserve the capital-value and thus will promote the mechanisms that allow for wealth accumulation.

Democratic interests, on the other hand, are by nature populist and short-term thinking. The masses have never been rational, nor has the monarchist-aristocratic class ever been truly responsible to all private-property owners.

This is what makes the Canadian system – theoretically — superior to the American Republic. The Canadian system preserves this monarchical element to ensure democratic interests don’t undermine the long-term interests of the country.

Neither Canada nor the United States are strictly democracies, but rather, constitutional governments bound by certain democratic elements, more so in the American system. Both systems fail to live up to their theories, because, as Professor Hoppe has keenly demonstrated, the theory of democracy is fundamentally flawed.

Yet while ratifying the constitution in the provincial legislatures, George-Étienne Cartier commented on the lessons that should be learned from the American experience of an overbearing democracy:

“We were not now discussing the great problem presented to our consideration in order to propagate democratic principles. Our attempt was for the purpose of forming a federation with a view of perpetuating the monarchical element. The distinction therefore between ourselves and our neighbours was just this: in our federation the monarchical principle would form the leading feature, while on the other side of the lines, judging by the past history and present condition of the country, the ruling power was the will of the mob, the rule of the populace.”

“They [the Americans] had founded a federation for the purpose of carrying out and perpetuating democracy on this continent; but we, who had the benefit of being able to contemplate republicanism in action during a period of eighty years, saw its effects, and felt convinced that purely democratic institutions could not be conducive to the peace and prosperity of nations.”

Indeed, it’s never a bad time for Canadians to restore their distrust in democracy.

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